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We’ve had the pleasure of using these Blue Satellite headphones for far longer than the average review, after a pair of Blue Ellas interjected themselves via our headphone round-up two issues back, putting on hold our review of these wired or aptX Bluetooth noise-cancellers. It was worth the wait. As with those more expensive Ellas, they deliver unusual design alongside accomplished sound.

Blue Designs is a Californian company manufacturing in China, though last year it became part of Logitech, which is Swiss… and just to confuse things, we gather BLUE is actually an acronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. Blue has come to

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